Learning to speak a new tongue : imagining a way that holds people together--an Asian American conversation /
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Author / Creator: | Matsuoka, Fumitaka. |
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Imprint: | Eugene, Or. : Pickwick Publications, c2011. |
Description: | xi, 142 p. ; 23 cm. |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8544647 |
Summary: | Learning to Speak a New Tongue attempts to respond to a timely question facing America today: What holds people together in a fragmented world? The response comes from a religious community that has not been very visible: Asian Americans. The author employs the threefold epistemological scaffold familiar to Asian Americans: (1) translocal value orientation embedded in the experiences of racialization, (2) a heightened sensitivity to pathos arising out of our dissonance with the societal norms and values, and (3) amphibolous spirituality, that is, a co-existence of multiple religious traditions without any resolution of their differences. The angle of vision embedded in this epistemological framework of Asian Americans' lives may well provide a clue to an alternate architectural paradigm in building a new peoplehood and to redefine democratic freedom as the historical paradigm of American peoplehood. |
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Physical Description: | xi, 142 p. ; 23 cm. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 137-142). |
ISBN: | 9781608998289 1608998282 |